A Star-Forged Ruby

For the record, I would never knowingly use or share AI generated art in anything I post, so if you ever catch me doing so, it was an accident, and I'd like you to let me know so I can delete it.

If you don’t have the spoons to read the article (bold is the important takeaways):

1. The article says the biomarkers found ALL the people with CFS and none of the healthy people. It’s a small sample size, but that’s 100% accuracy/sensitivity.

2. They did this by testing how the cells respond to stress. People who had cells that weren’t able to handle the salt (literally-they were given salt) had CFS.

3. They’re also testing how the cells react when given different drugs!!! Basically, they add the drug, and then if the cell handles stress better that means the drug might be of therapeutic use.

I haven’t had enough coffee yet so my brain is still pretty foggy and I’m not sure how much sense my summary made, but y'all this is pretty cool.

The study is being run by someone whose son has CFS and they have identified one drug that’s helping already. (Unnamed in article.)

Honcho Magazine June 1978

Reblog this and put in the tags what country you’re from and all the science classes you took in high school (for non Americans that’s approximately when you’re 14, 15, 16, and 17 years old)

Reminder for my non-jewish followers that don’t really know what Hannukah [and all the other attempts to translate it over] is about, think the following:

Ostensibly people just kinda eat fried things and light candles and contemplate. Yes.  But its also “The current ruling party demanded we not be jewish, forced conversion and desecrated our places of worship. So, its time for a rebellion to kill the occupation and take our shit back. Welp we did it, but they fucked up the temple real bad and the way time works says we won’t have the right things to keep our sacred fire burning. We can use this oil we found but it probably won’t last the whole time we need to wait. Wait, holy shit it’s lasting all night! x 8 nights. Lets fry some things and make it a holiday.”

Its another “They tried to kill/convert us all, they failed, lets eat and remember this keeps happening” holiday.

No, its not jewish xmas. No its not anywhere near our be all end all holiday.  It IS however a very good “eat food in winter and focus on the light in the world etc in the middle of the winter” thing. 

Its hard to put words to it, but like. I just wanna let it settle in that its nothing like xmas

it will probably turn out okay

For the mushrooms, anyway -- they get to eat the corpses.

every single post I make about women will always always always include trans women

‘‘ Black holes occasionally reveal themselves when passing stars get ripped apart by their gravity. These tidal disruption events have created a new way for astronomers to map the hidden cosmos. ‘‘

illustration for @quantamag - one of my most fav clients ever. thanks Olena for helping me so many ways the past 8 years

it fuckin PEELED that poor star